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You can enable or disable the Windows firewall on a remote computer. Download the Sysinternals Suite from the sysinternals website: http://download.sysinternals.com/files/SysinternalsSuite.zip Extract this zip file and see if PsExec.exe is in there. Disable the firewall state without stopping the firewall services on a remote computer. Pre-Windows 2008 method: psexec \\remotecomputer.mydomain.com “netsh firewall set opmode disable”…Continue reading Control Windows firewall state on a remote computer

As a Windows administrator it can be a pain to get used to the new Windows 2012 graphical user interface (GUI). One thing i really dislike is trying to get to the Windows Update feature while being connected to the server via a VMware Remote Console. For some reason the mouse cursor won’t show me…Continue reading Windows 2012 God Mode